--On Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:41 AM -0800 JC Dill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Will this be the end for "plain text email for those with no web access"
> mailing lists?
Maybe one useful approach would be to distinguish between kinds of
confirmations. When somebody joins you can offer them a couple of ways to
confirm. If they choose a Web based one, like the "word in graphic" test,
then they are confirmed 100% and enjoy full privileges. If they choose a
text-reply confirm, then manager approval is needed to complete the process,
or if the text confirm leads to immediate membership, then all postings from
the new member are held for moderator approval at first, like the feature in
Mailman 2.1.
You could come up with a library of text-based challenges, but it might be
counter-engineered.
There is also this method:
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What letter do you see in the above block?
